ESO

  • Press Releases

    Cornwall Insight responds to the ESO ‘Beyond 2030’ report

    Tom Faulkner, Head of Assets & Infrastructure and Networks at Cornwall Insight: “The report lays out the essential grid investments required to keep pace with the escalating electricity demand fuelled by the widespread adoption of heat pumps and electric vehicles. “With our sights set on a secure, low-carbon electricity grid...

  • Media Mentions

    The Guardian | Coal plants used

    Tom Edward Senior Modelling Consultant spoke to The Guardian about the coal-fired plants being fired up in the UK. The supply squeeze had caused market prices for electricity generated in the early evening, when electricity demand typically spikes, to climb to over £313 per megawatt hours (MWh).Renewable electricity is in...

  • Media Mentions

    Smart Energy International | Time of Use tariffs uptake

    Research from our ‘Connected homes insight service’ which found both suppliers and consumers have made tentative steps to explore Time of Use tariffs was featured in Smart Energy International. Despite the low adoption at the moment, ToU offerings could become as popular as single-rate tariffs over the coming decades. According...

  • Media Mentions

    ECAtoday | Batteries on the grid

    Our figures showing that between June and August 2020, the National Grid Electricity System Operator’s (ESO) reliance on battery storage to balance the grid rose by 150 per cent was featured in ECAtoday What is most interesting is the technologies that have been providing these balancing actions to the ESO.Newer...

  • Press Releases

    Batteries see 149% increase in Balancing Mechanism activity

    Research from Cornwall Insight highlights that there are significant changes in the technology type that has been providing balancing actions to the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), with activity from newer asset types seeing the greatest year-on-year increase. Accepted volumes in the Balancing Mechanism (BM) from identified batteries, gas...